redact-secret · Report · Detector

Telegram bot tokens

40 fixtures
Format evidence: T2 · Tool-corroborated
Run 2026-10-07
Mode published · redact-secret 0.1.0-beta.14

New pipelineAuthority

Built from the new pipeline

The new pipeline is the authority for credential qualification. These numbers are read from the qualification view derived from the official credential-eval run of the public-evidence-snapshot population. The regression and policy populations keep their own counts on the qualification pages and are not added in here.

Authority: new
Population: public-evidence-snapshot
Engine: credential-eval 0.1.0-alpha.16
Evidence: snapshot-2026.10.06.4
Run: sha256:4bec6e539482…
Recorded: 2026-10-07
Authorised for: @redact-secret/core@0.1.0-beta.14

Maintainer-reviewed (independent review pending)

598 fixtures of the 7,041 in evidence release snapshot-2026.10.06.4 carry this label. They are counted in the numbers on this page.

Passed the project’s own verification (source evidence, automated checks, recorded counter-arguments); not yet independently reviewed.

OpenRedaction default (all patterns): not measured in this run (optional)

The default (all-pattern) profile is slow and noisy for credential evaluation: personal data and resource identifiers dominate its findings, and its last official measurement took 7 minutes of scanner time on a population the credential profile scans in seconds (its methods run takes 40+ minutes), so it is a manual measurement and never blocks other scanners or core verification (#763). Its earlier results stay as history with their run identity; the credential profile is a separate scanner, never spliced with it.

Last measurement: policy-corpus@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:2451ce7bf380), public-evidence-snapshot+methods@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:d47d081ce5fb), public-evidence-snapshot@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:2451ce7bf380), regression-corpus@linux-x64 (configuration sha256:2451ce7bf380) · engine 0.1.0-alpha.5 · recorded 2026-10-05 · retained record, no longer listed by the run registry. It stays labelled with that run identity and is never combined with another profile or another run.

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OpenRedaction credential profile (33 types): not measured in an official run (local exploratory diagnostics only: see ADR)

The credential profile is the comparison profile chosen in docs/decisions/2026-10-06-choose-the-openredaction-credential-bearing-profile-as-the-comparison-scanner.md. It is optional in the official run class because no pinned engine configuration measures it yet: making it required would refuse every official view until the owner approves the one profile-only run. Its own history starts with that run; nothing of the default's is reused for it.

No earlier measurement of it is recorded. Nothing is shown in its place.

Official measurement: pending: requires owner approval (one profile-only run; see the decision).

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Every population and its qualification

Format evidence

trufflehog 3.97.4
Twin source digits:secret bot token; provider-code delimiter and alphabet, tool-corroborated body length · observed 2026-09-24 · Un-probeable record lifted 2026-09-24 (#207): twins mutate only the : delimiter and a / inside the secret, both rejected by Telegram's Bot API server acceptance check (tdlib/telegram-bot-api ClientManager.cpp, provider code on github.com), and the secret body below this contract's tool-corroborated 34-character floor. No twin shortens the bot id: provider code accepts 1 to 16 digits.

Telegram's own documentation gives exactly one example token and no formal grammar. TruffleHog's telegrambottoken detector corroborates the general digits:secret shape; gitleaks's telegram-bot-api-token rule requires an additional literal uppercase "A" leading the secret segment that this contract does not require, so it is not cited.

What the run recorded, by group

Detector views overlap, so their groups are never summed across detectors. Other scanners are reference values on the same inputs, in run order.

Groups of Telegram bot tokens fixtures
Group	Fixtures	Leaked or false alarms	Near-twins	Outcomes	Other scanners, same cell
Must not flag · Provider-documented	4	False alarmsinsufficient-evidence0 of 4 controls flagged		4 quiet · 0 flagged	flare-redact insufficient-evidence gitleaks insufficient-evidence trufflehog insufficient-evidence
Must not flag · Tool-corroborated	7	False alarmsat most 35.4%0 of 7 controls flagged		7 quiet · 0 flagged	flare-redact at most 35.4% gitleaks at most 35.4% trufflehog at most 35.4%
Must not flag · Project policy	11	False alarmsat most 25.9%0 of 11 controls flagged		11 quiet · 0 flagged	flare-redact at most 25.9% gitleaks at most 25.9% trufflehog at most 25.9%
Must redact · Tool-corroborated	14	Secret spans left readableat most 21.5%0 of 14 spans	Near-twins told apartat least 64.6%7 of 7 pairs	14 redacted · 0 too much · 0 partly exposed · 0 missed	flare-redact at most 39.9% gitleaks at most 96.0% trufflehog at most 47.6%
Project policy · Project policy	4	Secret spans left readableinsufficient-evidence0 of 4 spans	Near-twins told apartinsufficient-evidence1 of 1 pairs	4 redacted · 0 too much · 0 partly exposed · 0 missed	flare-redact insufficient-evidence gitleaks insufficient-evidence trufflehog insufficient-evidence

Find

Scanners

40 of 40 rows

Fixtures: 40
Left readable: 0
Redacted too much: 0
False alarms: 0

Fixtures for this detector

40 fixtures. Choose "Every scanner" to see each scanner's outcome for the same rows.

Fixtures in Telegram bot tokens
Fixture	Kind and evidence	redact-secret
`telegram-bot-token-bom`telegram · multibyte-text-offsets	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-bot-api-url`telegram · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-bot-yaml`telegram · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-botfather-reply`telegram · documented-format-literal	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-compose-env`telegram · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-json`telegram · structured-text-value	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-markdown`telegram · markdown-and-comment-value	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-no-final-newline`telegram · value-at-input-edges	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-ptb-builder`telegram · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-python`telegram · source-code-string-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-shape-1-bare`telegram · documented-format-literal	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-shape-1-quoted`telegram · documented-format-literal	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-shape-1-unicode-crlf`telegram · documented-format-literal	Project policyT3 · Project policy	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-single-quotes`telegram · quoted-value-extent	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-toml`telegram · structured-text-value	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-yaml`telegram · structured-text-value	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-actions-env`telegram · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-actions-secret-reference`telegram · templated-reference	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-angle-brackets-placeholder`telegram · documentation-placeholder	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-bot-username-public-id`telegram · public-identifier	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-botfather-note-prose`telegram · prose-mention	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-chat-id-public-id`telegram · public-identifier	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-env`telegram · documented-format-literal	Must redactT2 · Tool-corroborated	Redacted
`telegram-bot-token-label-prose`telegram · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-mask`telegram · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-masked-placeholder`telegram · documentation-placeholder	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-missing-delimiter-twin`telegram · boundary-violation	Must not flagT1 · Provider-documented · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-plus-body-twin`telegram · wrong-alphabet	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-prefix-only`telegram · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-reference`telegram · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-short-body`telegram · benign-lookalike	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-short-body-docs-width-twin`telegram · wrong-length	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-short-body-twin`telegram · wrong-length	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-short-body-yaml-twin`telegram · wrong-length	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-slash-body-env-twin`telegram · wrong-alphabet	Must not flagT1 · Provider-documented · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-slash-body-twin`telegram · wrong-alphabet	Must not flagT1 · Provider-documented · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-timestamp-colon-near-miss`telegram · format-near-miss	Must not flagT2 · Tool-corroborated	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-underscore-delimiter-twin`telegram · boundary-violation	Must not flagT1 · Provider-documented · twin	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-update-json-public-id`telegram · public-identifier	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet
`telegram-bot-token-url-template-placeholder`telegram · documentation-placeholder	Must not flagT3 · Project policy	Quiet